President Quotes · Page 81

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

— Anonymous

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

— Mark McKinnon

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

— Chita Rivera

President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.

— Ted Lieu

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

— Will Rogers

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

— Henry A. Kissinger

President Obama's Justice Department won less than half of its total cases before the Supreme Court, which is the lowest presidential win…

— Ted Cruz

President Trump has been very public about the fact that Aleppo is a humanitarian crisis that's been all but ignored by America…

— Kellyanne Conway

Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension…

— Paul Gigot

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and…

— Eddie Izzard

I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose…

— Helen Thomas

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without…

— Herbert Hoover

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was…

— Elliott Abrams

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics…

— Bruce Babbitt

Obviously, what's happening in China right now is crucial, in the party congress, which as someone said has anointed a new emperor…

— James R. Clapper

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history,…

— Herman Cain

George W. Bush's approval ratings have plummeted as Americans realize that it's not gay marriage that's destroying the country, but rather the…

— Michelangelo Signorile

My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today…

— John Kasich

The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being…

— James E. Faust

I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister,…

— Pepe Eliaschev

Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And…

— Judy Woodruff

President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's…

— Stephen Colbert

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

— Malcolm X

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

— John F. Kennedy

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

— Mitt Romney

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

— Pierre Salinger

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

— Shimon Peres

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

— Donald Trump

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

— Emeril Lagasse

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

— Mitch McConnell

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

— Zachary Taylor

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

— Pierre Salinger

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

— Liya Kebede

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.

— Robert J. Shiller

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

— Mark Steyn

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

— Charles Schumer